The Magnetic Kingdom of Nature

tation from the previous page's "character, morals, and studies", that sympathetic mediation of the paranymph an attendant at a wedding; here, the "go-between" of friendship, at last it happened that you presented yourself to me—as if drawn by that powerful magnet of homoeotropia similarity of nature/affinity—even from the most remote corner of the American world. I marveled, and I discovered in you, a native of the New World, a mastery of all the liberal arts. Indeed, in those foreign regions of America and in parts of the sky unknown to us, I found a man equipped with the support of so many virtues and gifted with so many prerogatives of grace from God.